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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are not very good at logic, pp.  The other pp did not say it was a magic elixer.  But if all things are equal, it is a cognitive benefit.[/quote]

The proponents of bilingual ed on this site are NOT stating "all things being equal", which is why people keep responding with their comments and sharing their experiences to the contary, but are making blanket statements about "bilingual" and cognitive benefits. Hence the comment by an African bilingual stating that many bilingual students in DCPS and other schools do not experience a "cognitive advantage"; not the racist comments implied by others, which is why we have ESL advocates and the new opening of the Internationals Program at Cardozo. If anyone cares there was a recent news item on the "Bilingual so called cognitive advantage" on Science Friday on NPR, the researcher stated that overall her own research did not actually show an advantage, but that the science journal chose to publish the one test that did show a slight advantage out of the others that didn't show any advantage. She was shocked that they cherry-picked her own data to prove an argument that was in fact not shown by her own research. Basically, the news item was about bias in research and what information gets selected and omitted and published in science and medical journals, misleading the public who often do not have access to all the raw test data.  [/quote]

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